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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 36m

fundamentally Peter Thiel has been reading a lot of blogs and he writes and speaks like a mid-tier blogger now. just free association of sort of interesting stuff that sympathetic people will consume as insight porn. not intended to be subject to real analysis. you know. slop

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 5h

I just don't understand the desire to use the antichrist as a metaphor in this way when you're going to detach it from any biblical analysis at all and talk about comics and manga.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you Fr. Larry Dowling

ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · Apr 11

"In each Eucharist we celebrate LIFE: the victory of the Living One over against those who kill." - Bl. Christophe Lebreton

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 4h

it’s cool but it’s like 20 times the size it needed to be

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Jake @jakeall.bsky.social · 5h

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 18h

my own crank concern is that nobody’s model is prepared for what DOGE built — what happens when they use Musk’s new software to turn off interest payments to certain creditors (eg Chinese entities, pensions of non-deferential unions), but assert that it doesn’t count as bankruptcy?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

God has no body but yours
No hands, no feet on earth but yours
No plague of frogs to condemn tyrannical rule but yours

- St. Teresa of Avila

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

at the risk of sounding “natalist” I’ll admit that seeing newborn babies really does fill me with hope for the future

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s incredible to suggest Ms Rachel is doing this as a “substitute for a personality” — she’s been making wholesome and helpful videos for children long before Oct 2023.

(If she’d never said a word about Palestine, I’d still be grateful for how her potty-training songs helped my little girl)

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

钱给触摸了

Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 1d

The Dow plunged almost 900 points and the S&P 500 lost 2.7% in the biggest drop since April after Trump threatened new tariffs on China.

Dow drops almost 900 points, S&P 500 declines the most since April after Trump's new China tariff threat

The Trump post sparked a rapid sell-off in stocks Friday.

www.cnbc.com

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 1d

This is an incredibly weak place for them to be. If they end up tear gassing a bunch of librarians and kids in strollers at the family picnic that is No Kings it could trigger the type of support that ends a regime.

I'll see you on the 18th.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo: “The Catholic Church has always defended religious freedom for all people.”

Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Religious freedom, therefore, is not merely a legal right or a privilege granted to us by governments; it is a foundational condition that makes authentic reconciliation possible. When this freedom is denied, the human person is deprived of the capacity to respond freely to the call of truth. What follows is a slow disintegration of the ethical and spiritual bonds that sustain communities; trust gives way to fear, suspicion replaces dialogue, and oppression breeds violence. Indeed, as my venerable predecessor observed, “there can be no peace without freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of expression and respect for the views of others” (Francis, Urbi Et Orbi, 20 April 2025).

For this reason, the Catholic Church has always defended religious freedom for all people. The Second Vatican Council, in Dignitatis Humanae, declared that this right must be recognized in the legal and institutional life of every nation (cf. 7 December 1965, 4). The defence of religious freedom, then, cannot remain abstract; it must be lived, protected and promoted in the daily lives of individuals and communities.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not surprised by this. Liberal arts colleges like Harvard and Columbia merely teach you practical skills, like journalism and impressing rich people at parties by having the right opinions about television. STEM teaches you how to think. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence.

www.wsj.com

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d

The Republicans entered this trade war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to tariff everyone else, and nobody was going to tariff them.

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says he was blindsided by new Chinese trade restrictions. He is “calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America.” Market not happy.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d

that’s really inefficient — he should have the Blinkist app summarize it for him

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d

it would be very funny if Trump changed his position on Maduro out of pure spite

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2d

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d

with prices like this, who can afford not to kneel?

“Kneeling pads” on sale at Home Depot for $14.88

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo: “The Catholic Church has always defended religious freedom for all people.”

Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d

you can’t find it in the old mass or breviary, but perhaps it can be found at the Word On Fire Institute

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